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Expand your horizons with classical music

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites by Britten, Bach, Mozart, Sally Beamish, Shostakovich and Albeniz.

Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites including Britten's arrangements of Rossini in Soirees Musicales, Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze orchestrated by Stokowski and Mozart's Laudate Dominum sung by Danielle de Niese. Also in the mix are Sally Beamish's depiction of a boardwalk in California, the beautiful slow movement of Shostakovich's second piano concerto and Albeniz's Capricho Catalan played by the Tierolff Saxophone Quartet.

Producer: Ian Wallington

29 minutes

Last on

Fri 16 Aug 202419:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Soirées musicales [after Rossini]

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Britten: Young Person's Guide etc..
    • Decca.
    • 9-11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep may safely graze (Cantata No 208) arr. Stokowski

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)

    Singer: Danielle de Niese. Choir: The Apollo Voices. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Mozart Album: Danielle de Niese/OAE/Mackerras.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Sally Beamish

    String Quartet No. 2, "Opus California": 1st mvt Boardwalk

    Ensemble: Emperor Quartet.
    • Beamish / Beethoven - String Quartets - Emperor Quartet.
    • BIS.
    • 9.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    España, Op. 165 IIA 16: V. Capricho Catalán (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet)

    Ensemble: Tierolff Saxophone Quartet.
    • España, Op. 165 IIA 16: V. Capricho Catalán (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet.
    • Tierolff.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 16 Aug 202419:00
    BBC Radio 3

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